minus-squareStarfarts@reddthat.comtoMildly Interesting@lemmy.world•Xenomorphon baranowskii - A newly discovered species of beetle that completely lacks wings or elytralinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-22 years agoFor anyone else who doesn’t know what elytra are, they are the “protective wing-cases for the hindwings underneath, which are used for flying. To fly, a beetle typically opens the elytra and then extends the hindwings.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elytron linkfedilink
For anyone else who doesn’t know what elytra are, they are the “protective wing-cases for the hindwings underneath, which are used for flying. To fly, a beetle typically opens the elytra and then extends the hindwings.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elytron